30 December 2009

I collected these slips of paper, this evidence for your consideration. We forget to wash our feet before bedtime, before the sheets cooled. There's a price to pay, but it'sinvisible, a shadow you mistakefor someone, a little orangelight in the doorway. We'll wait and see, but I doubt he's coming.He hasn't smoked cigarettes for years.

About the Blogger

Shannon Ranee McKeehen, author of Barbra in Shadow and These Cells Are Passages, is a writer and teacher who received her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College. She is currently at Kent State University, where she is pursuing a PhD in the English: Literacy, Rhetoric, and Social Practice (LRSP) program.